[Spacewalk-list] Cobbler Packages - Why 2?

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:05:45PM +0000, Tom Brown wrote:
> Why are there 2 different cobbler packages in spacewalk - cobbler-2
> and cobbler20 ?

Actually, Spacewalk ships three packages:

	cobbler20
	cobbler2
	cobbler-epel

The cobbler20 and cobbler2 are always installed together -- it's just
an rpm packaging issue to allow seamless upgrade from older versions.
The package cobbler2 has no content. There is no cobbler-2 in
Spacewalk repos.

If you want to install cobbler 2.2+ found in EPEL and Fedora, you have
to install the package cobbler-epel and it will pull in the newer
packages. Again, it's just an rpm packaging issue, cobbler-epel does
not have any content.

> What is special about this/them compared to the standard cobbler

They just work, especially with SELinux in enforcing mode.

> - i am having ks rendering issues that only show up when using
> these cobbler versions, if i replace them with a 'standard'
> cobbler-2 all is fine.

Not sure what the cobbler-2 package is -- if you mean cobbler 2.2+
from Fedora or EPEL -- if it works for you, just use that version.

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat